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Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma
Share values have dropped more 90 percent, investors have lost more than $100 billion, and both companies were rescued by the federal government earlier this month, placed in a government conservatorship run by the newly created Federal Housing Finance Agency. Second, some people think it would be a really good idea to dismember Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. "I say that we cant let them go fast enough," explains a commenter by the name of Wazzel who posted on the Washington Independent website. "Let Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma By Peter G.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
quot;I think this time residential housing is in the 100-year flood, and I think it's going to take a long time to recover," said David Shulman, senior economist at the UCLA Anderson Forecast , at the Zelman & Associates Housing Summit in Dallas on Sept. Now, in 2009, or will you wait until 2020 when everyone has forgotten about this housing slump and is raving about skyrocketing home prices? Posted 09-30-2008 11:27 AM by darenb Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trends
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Another Approach to $700 Billion Bailout
Below are excerpts from an article he wrote about these alternatives. "One alternative is to simply offer low-interest loans to borrowers who currently have toxic mortgages. "Figures developed by Rick Sharga, senior vice president at RealtyTrac, show that the likely cost of low interest loans would be roughly $220 billion — hardly cheap, but a lot less expensive than the $700 billion plan now being discussed in Washington. "Sharga's This will force bankers to work with trouble borrowers so they can get the other 90 cents from that dollar.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Mayors Predict Rising Foreclosures in 2008
That will worsen the already sharp housing downturn, with ripple effects on hiring and spending. billion in economic activity in 2008, followed by Los Angeles at $8.3 billion, Dallas and Washington at $4 billion each, and Chicago at $3.9 Tell us what you think. Posted Mounting home foreclosures will lead to “profound” effects on the economy next year, bleeding billions of dollars in lost tax revenues, shrinking job growth and reducing consumer spending in the nation’s major metropolitan areas, according to a new report released this week by the U.S.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Rate Cut, Real GDP Are Some Positive News
One day after President Bush pointed the finger at Congress and told the American public to blame lawmakers for all of their recent financial woes, an inkling of actual positive news came out of Washington Wednesday with two announcements from government agencies. More specifically, however, the Fed announcement highlighted a number of factors for its decision such as subdued household and business spending, soft labor markets, stressed out financial markets, tight credit conditions and the continuation of the housing contraction. In the first, and the more closely watched of the two, the Federal Reserve took a much anticipated move to lessen the pressure on the nation’s economy by lowering the federal funds rate another 25 basis points to 2 percent (that’s a long way down from the 5.25
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Home Price Appreciation Stays Sluggish
An index issued Thursday suggests the nation’s sputtering housing market is running low on the fuel it needs to accelerate — price appreciation. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s House Price Index for the fourth quarter of 2006 shows home prices were up 1.1 At the top of the list were several states in the West and Northwest — Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. percent from the previous quarter and up 5.9 percent from the fourth quarter of 2005 — down from the 7.9
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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When Foreclosure Is Not Politically Correct
14, 2007 for $18,356, followed by a Notice of Trustees Sale being recorded on March 19, 2008. The Trustee’s Deed transferring the property to Red Rock was recorded on May 19, 2008, according to the Long Beach Press-Telegram . At the time of sale Richardson allegedly owed her lender, Washington Mutual, more than $578,000 thanks to the 100 percent financing used to purchase the home and the additional fees and costs incurred by foreclosure. Typically when you read about a politician and foreclosure, it’s in relation to some piece of legislation created to combat the recent surge in foreclosures.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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As Foreclosures Mount, Candidates React to the Credit Crisis
With mortgage foreclosures at historic highs, Democrats and Republicans are fighting over a political issue that could have major implications in the 2008 presidential campaign. Sensing an opportunity to win votes, the major presidential candidates have come out swinging; proposing a variety of prescriptions to ease the worsening housing slump.Both the White House and Democrat leaders in Congress agree that something must be done to stop the foreclosures. Yearning to retake the GOP-controlled White House next year, the Democrats are clamoring for the federal government to do something, anything, to contain the crisis.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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History in Sen. Dodd's Favor, But Nothing Else
time when politicians come out in droves to complain to the American public about pork-barrel spending and the massive red tape involved by increased Washington bureaucracy. Pollack, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute , a conservative think tank, told the Times that he thought the plan was “a reasonable project” during hard economic times that has historical precedent. Dodd is scheduled to hold a private meeting with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to discuss the state of the national economy and the deepening housing crisis. ForeclosurePulse.com will continue
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Realtors '07 Forecast Looks Promising for Future Foreclosure Activity
At Wednesday’s Opening Session of California Realtor EXPO 2006, Leslie Appleton-Young, Chief Economist for the California Association of Realtors, presented her housing forecast for next year , calling for the state’s median home price to drop for the first time in 10 years and the pace of home sales to continue to decrease. The expectations of the California Realtors is less bleak than a new housing report, "Housing at the Tipping Point," released this month by Moody’s Economy.com that predicts sharp declines, some nearing 20 percent in many metropolitan areas of California, Arizona,
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Study Forecasts Rising Subprime Foreclosures
The study, which cites RealtyTrac numbers as one of its sources, looked at subprime foreclosure rates from 1998 through 2006 and closely ties those rates to house price appreciation. The projection of an accelerating subprime foreclosure rate is based on the expectation that house price appreciation will continue to slow. The study argues that subprime foreclosures will heavily impact the A new study released yesterday by the Center for Responsible Lending projects that one out of five subprime mortgages originated in the past two years will end in foreclosure, costing homeowners as much as $164 billion. “This rate is nearly double the projected rate of subprime loans made in 2002, and it exceeds the worst foreclosure experience in the modern mortgage market, which occurred during the “Oil Patch” disaster of the 1980s.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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The Legend of Foreclosure Vandalism Grows
The article claims that "real estate agents estimate that about half of foreclosed properties to be sold by mortgage companies nationwide have substantial damage, according to a new survey by Campbell Communications, a marketing and research firm based in Washington, D.C." And there are some real horror stories described by agents cited in the article: ferret droppings along the baseboards, walls pocked with holes, appliances and light fixtures ripped out, a trail of motor oil dripped on all the carpets throughout a house. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that more and more homeowners forced out of their homes by foreclosure are turning to vandalism to lash out in some tangible way in a situation where they feel powerless.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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And the Hits' Just Keep On Coming!
Washington Mutual and Merrill Lynch. Now with the first week of October behind us, Citigroup, Washington Mutual (WaMu as it likes to be known) and Merrill Lynch announced their organizations would be taking major hits in the pocketbook for the third quarter of 2007. Ongoing weakness in the housing market, along with held-for-sale mortgages, net losses in the company’s trading securities portfolio and losses on investment grade mortgage-backed securities were cited as key contributors to the projected loss for the quarter. Countrywide. Citigroup.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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